Cover for manuscript or printed notes



(No Model.)

W. T. SADLIER.

@QQVER FOR MANUSCRIPT 0R PRINTED NOTES. No. 559,219.

1 a; I 1 I x" ---*x i i 11,? I A B B C i JL Patented'Apr. 28, 1896.

script or printed notes of UNITED' STATES,

PATENT.

WILL AM 'r. SAULIER, or BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR To ANDRE-w pUeALn MACLACIILAN, or MELROSE,

MA HSACIIUSETTS.

COVER FOR MANUSCRIPT OR PRINTED NOTES.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 559,219, dated April 28, 1896.

Application filed September 10, 1894. Serial No. 522,609.

(No model.)

To all whom it may concern: v, Be it known that I, \VILLIAM THOMAS SAD- nrnn, acitizen of the United States, residing in the city of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have in vented a new and useful Improvement in a Cover for Manuscript or Printed Notes, of i which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

This invention relates to the binding together of loose perforated sheets of manusuch as notesof lectures are' required for immediate use or future reference.

The object of this invention is to provide a means for binding such perforated sheets so that there may not appear on the outside of the binder when it is closed anyindication that the coverlis other than an ordinary book, and, further, to construct such cover so that its two sides may turn back interchangeably one to overlap the other, thereby giving a convenient writing-surface.-

By this invention the sheetsare connected with the cover by means of one, two, or more perforated strips or tongues, which are suitably attached to the flexible back of the cover,

the whole. presenting, when closed, the appearance of an ordinary book.

The invention consists of one, two, or more strips or tongues made of cardboard or other suitable material and covered with cloth or other flexible material, such strips or tongues projecting from the flexible back of the cover and attached by means of the cloth thereto.-

'lhesc projecting strips, have each one, two,

or more eyelet-holes, through which strings,

tapes, orbrass fasteners may be passed where- With to bind correspondingly perforated sheets to the strips or tongues. The cloth intermediate between the strips of cardboard and the-flexible back of the'eover acts as a hinge to allow the entire packet of bound sheets to move within the cover entirely independent of such cover, and since the perforated sheets are attached not to the cover directly, but by means of these either side of the-cover may be turned completely back so as to overlap the opposite, thus mak ing the cover serviceable from eithercnd and students or others, or other data which converting it, when either side of the cover so overlaps the other, into a convenient laptablet.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows in perspective a book-cover provided with myiinprovement,-illustratin g its reversible character and use as a lap-tablet. Fig.

2 is a view' in plan of the'open cover. Fig. 3

is a longitudinal section of the same, taken on line X X, showing the chute'iii place. Fig.4 is an end elevation of the open cover.

Referring to the drawings, A and A represent the two sides of astiff book-cover, such 7 as is commonly used for binding perforated sheets of manuscript.

, B and B are two cardboard strips covered with cloth or leather and connected with A and A by the flexible hinges aand (1'.

O is a flexible back connecting l and B, as in any book-cover.

D and D are two strips of cardboard or other material covered with cloth or other suitable material, such covering being extended beyond the strips and fastened to the flexible back C, leaving intermediate flexible hinges Z) and b.

c care eyelet-holes in the projecting strips D and D, through which a cord (1, tapes, or. brass fasteners may be introduced to bind 8o loose sheets E of paper correspondinglyperforated to the strips.

The projecting strips D and D are hinged at Z) and b in order to allow the entire packet of notes to be turned back, so as to rest either -8 5 on the inside of the cover on A or upon the inside of the cover on A. Furthermore, as the parts of the cover marked B and 13' are not to receive eyeleteholes to bind the paper, the hinges a and a are free to act in a re versible manner, so that the side A may be turned back so as to overlap the outside of A, or A." turned back to overlap the outside g of A, as shown in perspective in Fig. 1.

It will be seen that inasmuch asthe binding 5 of the sheets is done entirely within the cover the appearance, when the cover is closed, will be that of an ordinary .book, no brass fasteners,- rings, tapes, or other devices passing through the outside cover to interfere Ice -with its free open'ingor give the cover an unsightly appearance,'while its reversible char- :ieter gives to a. writer engaged in taking notes in a 'eramped position a eompact rigid snrfaee on which to Write.

I claim- A temporary binder, consisting in the 00V- ers A A, the strips B B hinged at oneedge to the covers ,A A'es shown at aa, the back 0 hinged as at b b, to the said strips B B and the parallel strips D I), flexibly connected to the back 0 along its hinge-lines b 1) respectively, to receive mnl hold the loose sheets removztbl y between them whereby the bound sheets are freet-o swing against the inner side of either cover and either "cover is free to be turned under the other by reason of the I 5 WM. '1. SADLIER.

\Vitnesses N. C. LOMBARD, AL'IFZH E. LonnARD.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 559,219, granted April 28, 1896,

upon the application of William T. Sadlier, of Boston, Massachusetts, for an improvement in Covers for Manuscript .or Printed Notes, an error appeara in the prmted shecification requiringreorrection as follows, viz: In line 61, page 1, the word chute should read sheets; and that the said Letters Patent shou ld be read with this correction -t1 1erein that the ttme may eenform to the record of the case in the Patent Office.

Signed, countersigneq, and sealed this 19th day of May, A. I). 1896,

JNQ- M. REYNOLDS, Assistant Secretary of the Interior [SEAL] Countersigned S; T. FIsIm-R, Acting Commissioner of Patents. 

